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Z.L. Urech & J.P. Sorg 2010. Taking into account local people’s livelihood systems for a better management of fragments<br />

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Table 2: Categories of l<strong>and</strong>scape types<br />

L<strong>and</strong>scape types<br />

River<br />

Irrigated rice fields<br />

Tavy<br />

Safoka<br />

Marsh<br />

<strong>Forest</strong> massif<br />

Fragments<br />

Village garden<br />

Tanimboly<br />

Definition<br />

Water <strong>and</strong> riverside<br />

Irrigated, permanent rice fields<br />

Cultivation of rice <strong>and</strong> other products on slopes after slash-<strong>and</strong>-burn<br />

Secondary vegetation without cultivation<br />

Wet <strong>and</strong> periodically or permanent flooded ground<br />

Permanent natural tree cover connected to the forest massif.<br />

Permanent natural tree cover not connected to the forest massif.<br />

Trees <strong>and</strong> plants cultivated in the village around the houses<br />

Traditional agroforestry system with trees <strong>and</strong> annual crops<br />

Categories<br />

Food<br />

Medicine<br />

House construction<br />

Tools<br />

Fire wood<br />

Weaving<br />

Income<br />

Hunting<br />

Table 3: Categories of goods <strong>and</strong> products<br />

Definition<br />

Plants, products or animals which can be eaten<br />

Natural products used for medicine <strong>and</strong> health<br />

Materials to build houses<br />

Materials to build tools for agriculture, hunting<br />

Fuel<br />

Plants used for weaving products, such as mats, hats, baskets<br />

Products which can be sold<br />

Animals (lemurs, tenreks, fish etc.)<br />

3 Results<br />

3.1 The general importance of fragments<br />

<strong>Forest</strong>ed l<strong>and</strong>scapes are of indisputable high importance for the rural people living in the presented<br />

research area. But the local population perceive the massif <strong>and</strong> fragments as two types of<br />

l<strong>and</strong>scapes with different importance. As illustrated in Figure 1 the importance of fragments becomes<br />

significantly higher with increasing distance to the massif (Analysis of variance: F 3,18 =<br />

4.21, P = 0.02). The relatively high importance of fragments in the nearest village to the massif<br />

(Ambofampana) can be explained by the qualitative <strong>and</strong> quantitative still high availability of<br />

NTFPs <strong>and</strong> timber in these fragments. Because the population density is low, fragments are not<br />

much degraded <strong>and</strong> the difference of diversity between the massif <strong>and</strong> the fragments is not very<br />

high.<br />

Figure 1: The perceived importance of forested l<strong>and</strong>scapes, including all categories of goods <strong>and</strong> products<br />

(see Methodology, 2.3 Scoring exercises)<br />

<strong>Forest</strong> <strong>L<strong>and</strong>scapes</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Change</strong>-New Frontiers in Management, Conservation <strong>and</strong> Restoration. Proceedings of the IUFRO L<strong>and</strong>scape Ecology<br />

Working Group International Conference, September 21-27, 2010, Bragança, Portugal. J.C. Azevedo, M. Feliciano, J. Castro & M.A. Pinto (eds.)<br />

2010, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal.

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